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The Croquist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 08:45 AM
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3. I'm not surprised
When someone predicts that anything and everything bad that will ever happen is because of something, gullible people will jump on it as "proof"! Your statement and the article presupposes that the flooding in Pakistan was caused by "climate change" but that is a link that can never be proven. It isn't until the 14th paragraph that the article mentions:

Whether these outcomes can ultimately be attributed to climate change is still a matter of some - though increasingly less - debate.

Exactly what does increasingly less - debate. mean? What has changed so that we can be more confident that anything and everything bad that ever happens can be blamed on "climate change"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_in_Pakistan

Wikipedia has a list 20 natural disasters that have hit Pakistan not updated to include the current one. 11 of them are floods. They don't list deaths for all of them but in 1977 over ten thousand died. Were all of them caused by "climate change" or is this one special? Is it possible that floods just happen sometimes?

Was the 1887 flood in China that killed between 900,000 & 2,000,000 people caused by "climate change"?

Some how everything bad that happens these days is assumed to be caused by "climate change".
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